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Offline Zac67

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Re: Adding Ram to A500
« on: September 20, 2005, 09:43:02 PM »
The easiest way to work around the non-DMA issue is to use the buffer address mask (in HDPrep) to make sure the buffers are allocated within DMA memory. E.g. if the first 4 megs support DMA and 4+ meg not, you'd use a mask of 0x3ffffc. You'll need to find out where each expansion's memory is located at first.

Obviously it makes sense to fully use the Mtec's memory and reduce the 16 bit RAM to the needed limit (assuming the Mtec mem configures below the 'magic' 16 meg, so that it 'collides' with the Zorro II mem expansion).
 

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Re: Adding Ram to A500
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2005, 07:22:57 AM »
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toca180 wrote:
scsi.device 40.5 (13/09/93)

Does look like the very latest - I'd be surprised if anything happened to the ROMs after 09/93.

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AddMem START 40000 TO 7FFFFF [PRI value (what is it? What should I put?)] [NAME mtec (would this be ok?)]

There must be five '0's to the 4 - otherwise you're adding memory your 500's already using... :crazy:
PRI should be +10 or +20 to have 32 bit RAM allocated first (chip is 0, 16 bit fast is +5).